A recent research by the ANPAM shows that in Italy the arms sector, both sporting and hunting, is growing while showing a strong brake constituted by bureaucracy.
In fact, from an economic research on the arms sector commissioned by ANPAM, the National Association of Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers belonging to Confindustria, at the University of Urbino it emerged that in Italy there are 2.264 companies in the sector that employ 11.358 employees for one tour of business exceeding 486 million euros.
The results of the research, presented by the president of ANPAM, Nicola Perrotti, and by the councilor of the Association, Marzio Maccacaro, illustrate how Italy is not only the leading European producer of sporting and hunting weapons but also the most important exporter in the world of sporting, commercial and ammunition weapons; the export would even concern 90% of the production for a total value of about 240 million Euros compared to imports which instead amount to about 22 million Euros.
Furthermore to the value of the production of weapons, accessories and various components is added the export of the same components and accessories with all the annexes of the case, reaching a total value for the sector of more than 755 million euros. The value of the hunting and shooting sector alone, linked to the previous one, amounts to approximately 3,84 billion euros, employing approximately 42.889 employees.
It is also clear from the research that despite the global economic crisis, this year the data of the Banco Nazionale di Prova show a sign of recovery with a good percentage of growth and increase of the weapons tested.
The growth of the sector, however, comes up against bureaucratic and administrative constraints that affect production and export times. thus damaging the competitiveness of the sector; among these constraints there is precisely the Code of Conduct for sporting weapons and the same obligation to carry out the banking of weapons at the central test bench.
The president of ANPAM, Nicola Perrotti, commented on the subject, "We are a solid sector, with zero evasion, capable of facing foreign competitors head on like very few others can do in Italy. Our development could be one of the drivers for the recovery of Italian industry but it is put at risk every day by bureaucracy and legislative confusion ”.
Furthermore, continues Perrotti, "we are one of the best sectors of Made in Italy, this research certifies it and is for us a further push to do better hoping for concrete support from the institutions from which we ask nothing more than to be able to work like our foreign adversaries, without aid but without useless obstacles ”.